Archive for Year: 2016

Photo of a cracked windshield after auto accident

Fatal Pursuit Northeast Of Atlanta

A reckless high-speed police pursuit that stretched across two counties resulted in the death of an elderly couple from Lawrenceville. Johns Creek officers initially tried to stop 47-year-old Larry Thomas for a routine traffic violation.

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Car Accidents

Traffic Related Accidents Increase in Georgia

After nine years of consistent reductions in the number of Georgians who are killed in motor vehicle crashes, fatalities increased a stunning 21 percent in 2015. 1,414 people were killed on the state’s roadways last

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Millions in Settlements Awarded
Personal Injury

Alleged Drunk Driver Kills One

One person is dead, and several others seriously injured, after what authorities describe as a near head-on crash in Gwinnett County. The collision took place in Lawrenceville on McKendree Church Road, when 26-year-old Michael Schick

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Personal Injury

Can A Baseball Player Be A ‘Known Defect?’

Miami Marlins outfielder Delmon Young was arrested after he allegedly assaulted a parking attendant in the Magic City. Authorities state that the 30-year-old free agent grabbed the man’s neck and called him a “stupid Cuban”

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Multiple Million Dollar Settlements Awarded at Wade Law Offices
Personal Injury

‘The Dirty Dozen’

An advocacy group recently came up with a list of 12 cases which it claims pervert the principle of sovereign immunity from negligence lawsuits. Many of the cases in the so-called “dirty dozen” involved alleged

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Brain Injury

A Royal Headache

Some scholars believe that the erratic behavior of 16th century English monarch Henry VIII was caused by a brain injury he suffered earlier in life. In the 1520s, the king suffered a string of head

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Car Accidents

Poor Ms. Palsgraf: A Look at Negligence

A trip to the beach outside New York City wound up becoming one of the foundational cases in American negligence law. Facts Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Company involved a woman, Helen Palsgraf, who was

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Car Accidents

Prison Sentence In Drunk Driving Case

A Cobb County man will have ample opportunity to reflect on the series of decisions that led to his involvement in an alcohol-fueled car crash that took the life of a popular author. 45-year-old Jeffrey

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Personal Injury

Off The Rails

A Maryland public school superintendent acknowledged that peers and scientists might believe that he is “damn nuts” for giving students chocolate milk to help them recover from a brain injury. Nevertheless, Clayton Wilcox plans to

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Fayetteville adoption lawyer filing paperwork for adoption process in Georgia
Personal Injury

‘The Great Mimicker’

A difficult-to-identify bacterial infection that kills 70 percent of its victims within 48 hours is spreading throughout the globe. Once confined to Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, Melioidosis appears to be spreading to the Middle

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